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angra wrote:Made Manic can do something in the next tng update, so you can change it if you want. This has nothing to do with the speed of the game or something else, just wanted a more readable killmsg. like some ppl want diffrent huds.

spot on.

Please try to follow the quotes:

angra/emu wrote:When i started playing aq i felt that the killreporting was realy hard to read. i just wanted fo exempel: angra killed Caracol [ssg] and if i'm in team one with with red skins my name should be red. and the other blue if it the skins.

angra/emu wrote:abit like cs =)

L0ki wrote:My opinion:

L0ki wrote:Go ahead and make ActionQuake2 more CounterShit-alike?

L0ki wrote:What's next - turning down the speed?

L0ki wrote:I used this barb/overstatement

L0ki wrote:There's a reason we got those nice, long killmessages.

I do understand why angra sees the need of a more readable killmsg. Of cause something like x [sniper] y would be more readable. All I did was questioning this because the long, actionmovie-alike statements are a part of the feeling in/around AQ2. The logically correct (thanx for the explanation, Asskicker - I wasn't aware that people here needed some) but kinda exaggerated comparison to the speed was just a barb. An overstatement. Used on purpose as a rethorical method to bring out my point of view that we don't need mainstream-game-elements. After all it's just my opinion. Or to quote angra's quote:

but mabye thats just me.

Don't be that sensitive.

If this is done it should be done client side. This shouldn't be so hard either... hell, I could probably write that patch if I wanted to (I don't ). Just do a find and replace on the kill message in the client, and change it to something else before actually printing it on the screen. This way all the server traffic/messages would be kept as the are* and people could still set their custom kill messages. Then again, I like the kill messages, but as someone said, that's just me.


*it's always a bad idea to change something that has been in a certain way, I know that for example my DemoStats program would stop working... and I bet there are other programs/scripts/things that are dependant on those kill messages as well.

Trying to make a new standard to a game like aq2 is brilliant.

Samislide wrote:Trying to make a new standard to a game like aq2 is brilliant.

Actually I think that the freedom of choice is brilliant. The more choices everyone has the better, and especially when it comes to something as trivial as deathmessages. I'm much more unsure of is f.ex. the use of other than default textures, than I am about changing the death messages, which doesn't really impact the game in any way.

The only thing I'm saying is that one has to be a bit careful about how this is done (if it is done) so that you don't break something else.

Well well...

It's possible to implement that idea.

Since you have all data in current killmessages it may be easiest for a client to have some sort of killmessage parser that filters the messages to a new hud-element -- which then looks like the CS killsigns.

Should'nt be too hard.

I see no reason to change something serverside, either mod or serverbinary, since it would need also changes clientside whereas, as said, for this feature to work, clientside changes would be enough.

I`m for alternative client side death messages and for center print message when u kill someone for example You killed n00b! Its in Paintball2 and it looks great.

That thing would suck. This is not cs. I can read easily who killed who. Or wich weapon did he kill him.

Well then you don't need this. This is not a new standard, just for the players that want it. like diffrent colors on huds.

NRGizer wrote:Actually I think that the freedom of choice is brilliant. The more choices everyone has the better, and especially when it comes to something as trivial as deathmessages.

True. Good point.

So much for just alitle text change?

angra wrote:Well then you don't need this. This is not a new standard, just for the players that want it. like diffrent colors on huds.

What he said..

Sweet wrote:That thing would suck. This is not cs. I can read easily who killed who. Or wich weapon did he kill him.

People like you SUCK! That's just making deathmessages easier to read. Didn't you people got bored with those long stupid fuck boring and definately not funny deathmessages? Lets make them straight and readable!! Fuck you whores.

Uncle- wrote:I`m for alternative client side death messages and for center print message when u kill someone for example You killed n00b! Its in Paintball2 and it looks great.

Yea it is definately fun and comfortable
Sorry for double post

Tobiash wrote:

Sweet wrote:That thing would suck. This is not cs. I can read easily who killed who. Or wich weapon did he kill him.

People like you SUCK! That's just making deathmessages easier to read. Didn't you people got bored with those long stupid fuck boring and definately not funny deathmessages? Lets make them straight and readable!! Fuck you whores.

what a fine and erudite conversation!
rofl

Sweet wrote:That thing would suck. This is not cs. I can read easily who killed who. Or wich weapon did he kill him.

that has to be the single most idiotic respons to anything i've ever read on this forum.